This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lou Holtz, fully Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
Appearance | Beauty | Greatness | Heart | Impulse | Man | Mind | Past | Thought | Woman | World | Beauty | Thought |
It would not be going too far to assert that… conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and hwo is… unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
In the last analysis we remain persons who must flee from ourselves and from the dark mystery of our threatening guilt in order to find our true selves in God. Whoever has understood the importance of this flight, this critical distancing of ourselves from ourselves, whoever has understood this knows that it comes about only by allowing oneself to be loved by an infinite and all-forgiving love, which is called God, and by believing, hoping and loving in this love.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Guilt is the only evil; but no guilt accrues when the issue is one against which there are no guarantees.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Everything morally right derives from one of four sources: it concerns either full perception or intelligent development of what is true; or the preservation of organized society, where every man is rendered his due and all his obligations are faithfully discharged; or the greatness and strength of a noble, invincible spirit; or order and moderation in everything said and done, whereby there is temperance and self-control.
Control | Greatness | Man | Moderation | Order | Perception | Right | Self | Self-control | Society | Spirit | Strength | Moderation |
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
Care | Fear | Guilt | Riches | Sorrow | Temptation | Temptation |
Man's great guilt does not lie in the sins he commits, for temptation is great and his strength is limited. Man's great guilt lies in the fact that he can turn away from evil at any moment, and yet he does not.
Evil | Guilt | Man | Strength | Temptation | Temptation |
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Oprah Winfrey, born Oprah Gail Winfrey
Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service – to yourself and to others.
Oprah Winfrey, born Oprah Gail Winfrey
Don’t complain about what you don’t have. Use what you’ve got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service – to yourself and to others.
Then I must surely be right in saying that we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognize the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
Greatness | Honor | Men | Qualities | Right | Will | Wisdom |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes m ore conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
Appearance | Fortune | Good | Greatness | Spirit | Will | World |
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Enough | Greatness | Perception | Virtue | Virtue |
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.
Enough | Greatness | Justice | Need | Perception | Plenty | Poverty | Soul | Virtue | Virtue |